Ian Crisp writes:

>Music, I have argued here before, is sound (plain speech excluded) with
>structure imposed upon it by conscious human design and with the capacity
>to act as a medium for the communication of some form of mood or emotion or
>mind-state between at least two out of the trinity of composer, performer
>and listener.

Then this would make that serial piece that I wrote (which was also
aleatoric, at least at the time of composition), not music.  But it's
very clearly music, as everyone who's listened to it hears it as music.

len.